Alberto Fernandez

Alberto Angel Fernandez (2 April 1959-) was President of Argentina from 10 December 2019, succeeding Mauricio Macri. He was a member of the Justicialist Party.

Biography
Alberto Angel Fernandez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 2 April 1959, and he worked as a criminal law professor before being elected to the city legislature in 2000 as a conservative Peronist. Fernandez was close allies with Eduardo Duhalde, but he served in President Nestor Kirchner's cabinet at Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from 2003 to 2008 and later joined the left-wing populist Front for Victory faction faction of the Justicialist Party. In 2019, he ran for President of Argentina with former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as his running mate, and he won the presidency with 48.1% of the vote to the incumbent Mauricio Macri's 40.4%.